Opinion: Samantha Power’s U.N. Reality Check

Foundation for Defense of Democracies fellow Claudia Rosett on what awaits Samantha Power at the United Nations. Photos: Associated Press

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... I ... now in Washington where the Senate Foreign Relations Committee voted to confirm Samantha powers is our ambassador ... to the UN Wednesday after Ms Power's told the committee ... that she really really really will defend us interests at Turtle Bay ... what will the UN Iraq than spin around anyway Foundation for Defense of democracies fellow Claudia Rose that ... joins me from Washington Claudia ... do you believe what Mr powers said about her newly ... pro US the aggressive stance that the land ... that's the children ... Mary when I can add so she starts the idea that to conduct a decade ago she was writing effectively that the US to go on bended knee and apologize to enroll for its crimes ... now I she's not answering Senator previous question of what those funds are that she's saying America is the greatest nation on earth ... on ... less take her at her word for a minute ... and let me suggest this year ... if she EIA ... if she in fact it wishes to ... support us interests in reliever vigorously defend the US the United Nations ... she's going to have a much harder job there ... then if she wants to subvert U S interests and just write your own country so ... I'm ... it's the easiest course that the UN is to be anti American because the UN itself ... is fundamentally anti American and that's what gets your accepted their whining Fellows says Susan Rice found that out much to her surprise ... um you like what should the first priorities before and after powers when she's finally fully confirmed ... the job of the UN Mary is indeed the charter mission ... is to promote and protect world security and peace to avoid future warrants for a ... period that they have an immediate danger right now is the Iranian nuclear program though what other things lined up behind the knife Korean nuclear program which is connected to the Athenians ... the UN ... and ... many many problems as the U S has been in retreat that that's number one and that this plane there has not been eyeing the only thing that the UN really that's about that is ... put sanctions resolutions on Iran ... I there has not even been one of those ... since two thousand ten ... on a hundred ... ambassador Rice nothing's been done for years Russia and China block anything like that ... there are no sanctions resolutions on Syria at the UN Security Council same problem ... on so ... what will she do ... a it did say if anything if the U S policy is to go through the UN ... something much like him as a means to be done ... well let let's lay there that she does the same thing that Susan Rice does which is not saying ... one is that mean for the U N's ability to spend taxpayer money ... on we note the land is full of corruption and and and ways you are ... not one of the first people to expose oil for food that's because public fraud in history ... is that's kind of stuff still going on ... in in in China ... this ... sure ... I update what's what's what's not happening at the UN is they no longer have special conditions investigating ... that's a lot of the investigating has got away ... they now have the basic problem scuttling out all ... the fact that the UN has been an abject failure ... in its charter mission that high despite UN that the sanctions there are ... undecided un tucked hiding ... Humana still pursuing the its nuclear weapons factory has tested three of them out by the way Mary buses was just know ... that you're and currently chairs the second largest voting bloc in the U N General Assembly passes to give you a flavor of the UN ... and sits on the part of their flagship Agency the UN development programme ... and ten ... the failure to stop ... the real threats to world security and peace is high and civilized Elon are ... in no way to get the lay of the year and spending billions of American tax dollars every year that's about the Department ... of case ... and ... that they do ... very well around the planet and at this point what are the other things that ... Samantha powers that you try to do ... is get that better under control ... I wish her good luck actually that would be of very fine thing to do because very often the UN sense that not just the things that are wasteful ... but on things that are actually ... damaging ... time but there's a budget where we don't even really know how much the US is getting them right now ... he and the U S office of Management and budget ... is to publish figures across all UN U S Department of how much we can but they've done any but they don't anymore so we do wish her well foundation for the Defense of democracies fellow Claudia Rose that I needed to keep a close eye ... on what goes on ... thank so much and kayak again seem a bit